Star Citizen Passes $60m in Crowdfunding Milestone

Space epic Star Citizen has reached another milestone in its crowdfunding campaign.

Since its beginning, Roberts Space Industries' ambitious campaign has raised $60 million USD. In an announcement post on the RSI blog, creator Chris Roberts notes the surge in backers and pledges came following the reveal of First-Person Shooter (FPS) gameplay in Star Citizen.

Roberts used his reputation as the designer of the classic Wing Commander series to pull $2 million from Kickstarter alone, but the bulk of the project's cash has come from fans buying access through one of the starter packs and sales of in-game ships at the Roberts Space Industries website.

As the money involved has grown, so has the game's list of features, which now include the ability to exit ships and walk around planets and a first person shooter with zero-gravity physics in addition to the original inter-stellar mmo and single player hybrid.

The $60 million milestone added a new deep space fighter to the game and more ships will be added to the game at the $61 and $62 million markers.

No release date has been confirmed yet, but the most recent estimate puts the release of Star Citizen somewhere in 2016.

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